If you are graduating or otherwise leaving MCAD, you probably have data (such as emails, files in Google Drive, assets in Adobe CC) associated with your MCAD account that you’ll want to save or transfer before your account on our directory server is disabled. This in turn ends your ability to access most products and services associated with it. This article aims to provide a high-level overview of how to move, transfer, and export data from your MCAD account to personal accounts.
- Google Takeout is a useful solution that allows you to download a copy of all data associated with your account and/or transfer your data to a different Google account.
- If you do not yet have a primary personal email address, now is a good time to make one.
- Videos uploaded to the YouTube channel associated with your @mcad.edu account cannot be transferred automatically to a different account. To avoid losing your YouTube uploads, follow Google's instructions to download and reupload the videos manually.
Other Important Preparation
- In the year after your graduation but before your email account is deactivated, it may be a good idea to set up a vacation responder that automatically sends a reply to anyone who emails your MCAD address. You can customize the message to inform them that this is no longer your primary email address and direct them to contact you at your personal email address.
- You can also have messages received by your @mcad.edu address forwarded to another email address, but only while your @mcad.edu email account is still active. Deactivated accounts cannot continue to forward emails to another account, as they will no longer be able to receive emails at all. You'll need to make sure that you've given any important contacts your new email address.
- If you've signed up for other accounts or services (such as social media, online stores, banking portals, etc.) with your @mcad.edu email address, you will want to associate these services with a different email address before your account is deactivated.
- If you are the owner (creator) of shared Google Docs that others at MCAD will continue to need to access, make sure you transfer ownership of these files before your account is deactivated.
- After you've graduated, it's a good idea to stop by the Help Desk to have the MCAD software build removed from your computer and replaced with a clean operating system. This will help you save storage space and avoid software licensing issues—the remnants of (now inactive) MCAD software activations can interfere with your ability to license and use these programs on your own. The Help Desk welcomes walk-ins for graduates who would like to get off the MCAD build. Please make a full backup of your data beforehand.